m.sands@gmx.net (Melanie Sands) wrote in message news:<eac3cb6f.0312141101.22b7ffe6@posting.google.com>...
> original_dramaqueen@yahoo.com (Drama Queen) wrote in message 
> > Hi Melanie,
> > 
> > I understand you speak English, German, French, and Italian.
> > Since you're over in Europe, and also multi-lingual, I was wondering
> > if you were familiar with a hot Italian actor named Daniele Liotti?
> > 
> > If so, would you be able to recommend any of his work that is worth
> > watching? Do you know if he's done anything in English, but Italian is
> > OK too? I've already seen his Spanish film "Juana la Loca" 
> > http://www.sonyclassics.com/madlove/index-withflash.html
> > 
> > Thanks
> 
> Mai visto, mai sentito.

Oh! E Peccato! L'uomo e bello!

> 
> I do watch Rai Uno and Rai Due and Canale Cinque from time to time,
> but I've never seen a movie with Daniele Liotti in it. I did a little
> Google search, to see what he looks like:


Liotti was a law student and also played football for Rome's youth
team before making the switch to acting. He is well known to Italian
audiences, originally as a regular cast member in the television
series "Operazione Odissea" and subsequently through film roles. He
recently played Saint Antony in the film of his life, "Sant'Antonio di
Padova". He appears with Paul Sorvino and Gerard Depardieu in the
supernatural comedy movie "Streghe Verso Nord", plays the male lead in
the historical romance "Juana la Loca" (aka Mad Love), and in the
tragic "Broken Hearts" is bodyguard to the daughter of a Mafia chief.

Here is an online review of "Juana la Loca". It's pretty accurate.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/movies/85748_madlove06q_.shtml

I posted a few screenshots from the "Juana la Loca" DVD on a website
for you. He is definitely eye-candy.

In it, he's plays Prince Phillip, Archduke of Hapsburg 

Historically known as "Phillip the handsome", gee, I wonder why



Here is a shot of him in the nude



And one where his character is busted for fooling around



And one where he is looking mighty guilty fresh from an afternoon of
infidelity. His wife confronts him while he tucks himself away after
being caught butt nekked in the act.

Here he learns the death of his mother-in-law has just made him King.

Learning of the savage attack of one of his mistresses

Confronting the Queen over her jealous attack of his mistress.

Confronting his wife the Queen in the Castilian Parliament



> you'll find the following interview, translated by
> Google with all Google's customary translator brilliance
> -  and, who knows, maybe Daniele does actually speak English 
> like this, heh heh. (Eh si, sono una stronza cattiva, lo so.)

Chi parla? Una donna ha detto -- e vero?


Google leaves a lot to be desired with it's translation. My challenge
was, even though his films were listed in imdb, there were no reviews
in English or Italian. I don't want to be ordering foreign DVDs
without knowing if they're worth seeing, although "Broken Hearts"
sounds like it might be fun to watch.

http://www.german-cinema.de/archive/film_view.php?film_id=127

I missed the recent airing of "Dr. Zhivago" on PBS, but I plan to see
"Il Fuggiasco" when it comes out on DVD.

http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117922412?categoryid=31&cs=1



> Is it colder in Canada than it is here? It's around freezing point
> right
> now, 0 degrees Centigrade. It probably IS colder... 


It's pretty cold, ...and it's snowing. Our temperatures are hovering
between -5 and 0 centigrade, but the wind chill is making it feel like
-16. they say Wednesday we'll reach a high of +2 degrees. We just had
a winter storm that left a whole bunch of snow which prompted many
Torontonians to say "Wonderful! Now it feels like Christmas". What a
bunch of lunatics!


> Lets both go visit
> Starmaker in LA and scare the shit out of him...he'll get to be scared
> STIFF and we get to loaf in the sun...

Sounds good to me. I'm not too fond of shovelling snow.